Zinski, Dan (November 1, 2017). "Brett Ratner's Hugh Hefner Biopic is Dead in the Water". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on November 2, 2017 . Retrieved November 2, 2017. He was deeply traumatized during his college days when his fiancé confessed that she was involved in a sexual affair.

In this sense, Hefner’s historical influence has been, quite literally, fantastic. The Playboy dream is the stuff of fantasy, conjured from the realm of desire by a kind of cultural alchemy. While often flowing from Hefner’s personal experiences— My life has been the fulfillment of a fantasy, he likes to say—his vision of happiness also resonates powerfully in the broader culture. The notion of having few limits on personal pleasure is the modern American dream as well as Hefner’s. As the historian Daniel Boorstin observed, the enormous abundance of modern America has created a world where fantasy is more real than reality. . . . We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so ‘realistic’ that they can live in them. ³ Playboy founder Hugh Hefner writes passionate plea in support of gay marriage". NYDailyNews.com. August 23, 2012. Archived from the original on August 25, 2012 . Retrieved August 23, 2012. Brigitte Berman's documentary Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel was released on July 30, 2010. He had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A&E Biography special Hugh Hefner: American Playboy in 1996. [38] Hefner and Burns later collaborated on numerous other television projects, most notably on The Girls Next Door, a reality series that ran for six seasons (2005–2009) and 90 episodes. [39] Hefner also made a voice-only appearance as himself in the 2011 film Hop. In May 2017, Eugena Washington was the last Playmate of the Year to be announced by Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion. [67] Politics and philanthropy [ edit ] Hefner with Mayor Tom Bradley and Otis Chandler, 1980 All right, let me first lead off by noting that I have never read a Playboy or knew much about the business or the man behind it. (I know, strange considering all the other sex history I've studied.) So, I consider myself unbiased towards the company and its owner.

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Rapattoni, Linda. "Playboy publisher sues former live-in girlfriend". UPI. Archived from the original on December 3, 2020 . Retrieved September 20, 2020. Mr. Hefner claimed his stroke “resulted from stress developed over the last year in reaction to the pathological book written by Peter Bogdanovich.” Miller, Korin (January 5, 2009). "Meet Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's other girlfriend, Crystal Harris". Daily News. New York: Daily News, L.P. Archived from the original on January 18, 2010 . Retrieved January 11, 2016.

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While not quite on par with Edward Gibbon’s famous reverie amid the ruins of Rome that prompted him to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—even though critics would later accuse Hefner of starting just such a process of degeneration in the United States—this episode marked a turning point in the young man’s life. A few weeks later, he started his own magazine. The results would be stunning.